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This is our backup plan, but I’d like to avoid that as I’d rather not take a spot from someone actually planning to ski the bird that day.Quote:
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You'll hardly be the only one.Quote:
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So, gondola cockblock, interesting. I don't see anything that extreme ever getting traction, though.Quote:
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LOL Questionable if Mineral will be open on Monday, especially how Slowbird opens terrain.
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Obviously all speculation, but asking the experts. If the latest forecast holds, are you expecting a Thurs night -Friday AM canyon closure or a Friday PM - Sat AM closure in LCC? Landing at 10pm Friday night and trying to see if we need any contingency plans
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my guess is fine Friday til' the evening Red Snake. Canyon Closed Fri Night, total gong show til' Monday. Good weekend to go to Snowbasin and Deer Valley IMO, unless you have accomodations up canyon.
Staying up at the Bird and taking Canyon Trans to get up there so locked in to that option., just hoping we can make it up there before a Friday late night closure. I miss the old 5am closures .Quote:
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Good luck, I hope you make it up.
Would suck to not.
Canyon fucked me once, because I was the only confirmed late customer and charged me triple.
Never told me ahead of time and wouldn't refund my single to rent a car.
Only used the Alta shuttle after that.
Talked to Riebe. She's holding the bill, it won't run this session.Quote:
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deer valley ikon is already full. it's pres weekend.
basin beaterzzzzz, all of them.
can't even buy your way into pow mow w/o buying a still on sale season pass lol
you skiing to snowbird Sunday, Duff ? Unless the storm's closing stuff with that big storm! ... should be easy to spot: canadian tux on old black czars
Here through Monday. Thinking bird on Friday which should be okay getting up I hope if we leave real early. Have some questions for the locals.
Is LCC or BCC more likely to close (Friday morning)? Seems like the bulk of the storm is coming Friday. Could go to solitude instead if BCC is more likely to be open.
Saturday the issue is one of our group has ikon base, so we need to buy a day pass for him. Don’t want to go to solitude. OpenSnow shows a lot more snow up LCC than SnowBasin, but would suck to buy a day pass for Snowbird in advance (have to buy twenty four hours in advance) and not be able to get up there. Could still dip to Snowbasin if that happens, but F&F discount doesn’t apply day of
How likely is it we can get up to snowbird Saturday morning if the storm plays out as predicted? Does it usually matter if we leave super early (5-6am?) and wait in the car/lodge?
Could play it safe and go to Snowbasin, which I’m sure will still be great, even if it has less snow
How about some TRAFFIC STOKE - they just put on the traction law when it's not snowing!
And general stoke - I am pretty excited to ski some deep pow. Also, despite the limited deep powder days this year, the skiing has been so fun. The graupel storm skiing last Friday was some of the most fun I have had skiing in a long time. I think the term "free refills" is generally bullshit, but given the way graupel pools, Friday was actually free refills.
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If they do a LCC closure it will probably be from midnight - 8am or later, so even if you leave at 5am your going to sit at the bottom of the canyon for hours, and the way this season is going they're also not going to open shit for awhile at the resorts. (Not a dig at patrol, it's just a tough season with the snowpack) Solitude seems to be the worst this season for opening stuff. FWIW I was up at Powder Mountain yesterday and had it was skiing excellant, and I hear SnowBasin is doing good too. </p>
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So if I was a gambling man and wanted to ski Snowbird, I would try for Friday or Sunday. The storm is starting out from the South, so the winds won't load up the big LCC slide paths right away + people are still working/ school Friday. Saturday will be a junk show, and there will be a lul in the storm Satuday afternoon-Sunday, so Sunday should be a good ski day + new terrain will get opened. </p>
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muggy -
make sure you give your base pass person shit for being a cheap ass and making it a pain in the ass for everyone (unless it's the stupid season pass add on thing where you can't upgrade to a full)
I'd guess no LCC or BCC closure Friday.
but beyond that no one really knows. If i was a betting man and based on forecasts there will be a sat AM LCC closure. Midnight - ?? , 5am - ?? who knows. Idk about full interlodge but with an unstable snowpack and a fuck ton of heavy at first snow it could get interesting. Obviously i'd love to be wrong.
Snowbasin is going to be an absolute madhouse on Saturday (if canyon closes). Every person will be doing the same exact thing you are doing in addition to all their season pass holders. Terrain delays on opening, lines like you've never seen. It's skiing but it's not like you have much choice here.
perhaps bird passes are refundable if road is a clusterfuck? There has to be some precedent online/call them?
the play here? no clue. good luck.
The LCC is gonna be a junk show Thursday evening thru Saturday morning if this forecast is anywhere close to accurate.
Expect the canyon closed both Thurday and Friday nights.
Expect a.m and p.m road shoots Friday, and another Saturday morning.
Expect not much open terrain Friday and Saturday at the ski areas.
Expect large avalanches in the range, hopefully without fatalities.
^^ and that is the source of truth (or dam near close to it). Thanks for the insight tfw!
Appreciate the hard earned wisdom TFW. Thanks for the heads upQuote:
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Hmm, the base pass guy needs to take Saturday or Sunday off regardless (med school, needs to study lol). Maybe we’ll make him take Saturday off so we can go wherever the road opens. Sunday we’ll aim for the bird
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"+ people are still working/ school Friday." - this made me laugh. It's SLC - nobody works - I mean nobody! ;)
To help everyone out so they can ski this tomorrow, I'm going to go up Tanner's tonight and setup my bright yellow north face tent in the middle of the slide path so they can't shoot anything tomorrow.
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sfotex is on fire this morning!
Yep. Will def be at the bird Sunday. No first box for me ,need to drop my daughter off at ski school but will be there for sureQuote:
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TFW almost certainly right but i cant read so im prob still going to get in line on saturday morning. The bird this morning had pretty amazing wind buff, i was basically stitching together pow laps. I had to sit down at the silver fox gate and wait for the wind to pass, i was really concerned I was going to get blown off. Props to to the blues for even running the tram, it was a spicy docking
Solitude skied real soft and nice today. Most lifts open, but a lot of gates closed
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Just announced Thursday night closure. Could be a trend…Quote:
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If my drive down Parleys this afternoon is a look into the next two days, fucking stay home...
I’ll be in Vegas this weekend, so no doubt it will be the best turns of the year. But Godspeed to all you dealing with traffic the weekend.
The wind buff was firing today up at Alta. Not a ton of new snow, but the wind was doing good work.
Duffman, if I was you, I would make a quick audible and stay in Ogden Friday night and ski Snowbasin Saturday. Head up to the bird Saturday afternoon. Ogden is not quite as glitzy as the Cliff, but I bet you’ll have less stress.
"I would make a quick audible and stay in Ogden Friday night and ski Snowbasin Saturday. Head up to the bird Saturday afternoon"
Saturday Snowbasin is going to be an epic clusterfuck of Ikoners who can't get up the canyons, you sure about this? Heavy traffic, long lift lines, and potentially lifts not opening?
At this point weekend skiing had become the ultimate adventure in patience in the Wasatch.
At least we don't have I70 to deal with like those wankers next door. (biggrin)
At this point everything is going to be rough, biggest storm so far of the season and holiday weekend full of wankers like me coming in.
I would probably deal with the Snowbasin mess over LCC drama Sat like alias recommended, but too many moving parts w the family and a buddy's family in tow, Canyon Trans instead of car, ski school for the little one , etc. I've been on the very lucky side last few years getting country club days upcanyon ,I was due for a little suffering.
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"The descent of these Ikoners, like locusts invasions since the time of the Pharaohs, was frequently foretold as falling on any upcoming holiday winter weekend. For thousands of years, these locusts have been seen as a symbol of destruction – a sign of cosmic disorder. The apocalyptic quality of Locusts in local skier minds seemed to be the reason why their grotesque figures – gargoyles – were sometimes carved into the architecture of churches and monasteries, perhaps creating a symbolic representation of hell." -Logunov, D.V. 2006. Locusts: God’s wrath or revelation
"When morning came, the northwest flow had brought the locusts. They devoured all the lift lines and all the powder that the snow had spread.” – Exodus (10: 13–15)
Heh
Nice!
Haha. Nice.
Yeah, I am pretty sure ikon blackouts haven’t made a difference for a few years. Crowds regardless of pass type. Be safe everyone and enjoy the snow!
Think the SR210 closure overnight will make more people go to Solitude/Brighton tomorrow vs Alta/Snowbird?
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Car wise? Solly and Brighton mostly require parking reservation tomorrow that are sold out, so that's kind of capped. Bus wise, probably .Looking at the snow cameras its its looking like a slow start up there. I'm going to double down against TFW ;) and say they will get LCC open pretty quick tomorrow after they do control work. That doesn't mean it still won't be a shit show....Like 75% of the shit show they will have Saturday... And you still have to get down at the end of the day. If I'm wrong I'm brinng TFW beer Sunday afternoon I guess...</p>
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Got a roadside reservation for solitude tomorrow. Bird is free so either one works. Maybe we’ll try to go LCC
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